5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GUDES

GUDES is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Gude

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How GUDES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUDES as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,845 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___S G in the 1st position and S in the 5th position G__E_ G in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL CRATE SLART ROANY DRAIN MOULT
Words starting with G Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GUDES performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,845 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GUDES ranks #6,845 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
841
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

466
307
225
171
151
92
77
76
76
62
49
46
38
37
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25
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUDES:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

19.8% →
CAROL 6.10 bits
13.0% →
CRATE 5.58 bits
9.5% →
SLART 5.19 bits
7.3% →
ROANY 4.11 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.94 bits
3.9% →
DRAIN 5.17 bits
3.3% →
MOULT 4.79 bits
3.2% →
TIARE 4.65 bits
3.2% →
CLARY 4.25 bits
2.6% →
ROANY 4.81 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for GUDES; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

G2U1D2E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.